Amos 3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Hebrew Names version (HNV)
Amos 3

¹ Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Yisra'el, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

² *You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.*

³ Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

⁴ Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

⁵ Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

⁶ Does the shofar alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn't done it?

⁷ Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

⁸ The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

⁹ Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, *Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Shomron, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.*

¹⁰ *Indeed they don't know to do right,* says the LORD, *Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.*

¹¹ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: *An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.*

¹² Thus says the LORD: *As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Yisra'el be rescued who sit in Shomron on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.*

¹³ *Listen, and testify against the house of Ya`akov,* says the Lord GOD, the God Tzeva'ot.

¹⁴ *For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Yisra'el on him, I will also visit the altars of Beit-El; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

¹⁵ I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,* says the LORD.